About the Role
- At Miaplaza, we build homeschool platforms that kids aged 4–18 actually want to use — Miacademy, MiaPrep, and our Online High School are serving over 150,000 students today.
- We are looking for a step change in how our products feel through more expressive illustration, more purposeful motion, and more moments of craft.
- The design team is small and senior, consisting of five designers with distinct strengths in brand, Design Systems, research, and now illustration and motion.
- You will report to the Head of UX, with regular 1:1s covering craft, product, and career growth.
- Career direction includes deeper craft leadership, cross-product influence, or both.
- This role probably isn’t right for you if: your work hasn't yet lived inside a live product with real constraints; you prefer well-scoped tasks over shaping ambiguous problems; or you see AI tools as either a threat to craft or a shortcut around it.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own product design for the student learning experience end-to-end: from problem framing through delivery, in a Product Trio with a PM and EM.
- Manage product work involving pedagogical, technical, and business trade-offs.
- Set the illustration and motion bar for all of Miaplaza: the standards, motion principles, and character direction that the other designers and the Design System build from.
- Art-direct AI-assisted production by building the prompts, references, and review process that let a small team produce quality illustration and motion at scale.
What You'll Bring
A portfolio of shipped digital product work — not only concepts or standalone pieces.
At least 2 years working as a product designer or a UI/UX designer inside a product team, collaborating with PMs and engineers.
Strong illustration or motion skills, with at least 1 year focused on either as a primary craft.
Proficiency in Figma.
Some experience directing or guiding visual work produced by others — freelancers, junior designers, or AI tools.
Nice to Have
Deep motion skills in product contexts: interactions, transitions, onboarding, character animation.
Experience using AI image or motion tools as production accelerators.
Confidence running your own usability research, not just receiving findings.
Multi-brand or education-focused design experience.
Accessibility practice, especially for neurodivergent audiences.
Compensation & Benefits
- €60,000 - €90,000 per year, adjusted by experience and location.
- 100% remote for non U.S. candidates (EMEA, CET±2).
- You are required to live within 2 hours of each side of the CET time zone.
- Full-time, 40 hours per week.
- Effective collaboration requires overlap between 10:00 and 15:00 CET on weekdays.
- Miaplaza’s compensation philosophy ensures equity and competitiveness while considering regional differences in labor costs. Placement within a range is determined based on factors such as demonstrated skills, internal equity, and local labor market rates for the candidate’s geographic area.
Interview Process
- Application and eligibility check — work authorization, timezone, availability.
- Async assessment — 12 scenario-based, multiple-choice questions (~30 min); if qualifying, 3 open questions (max. 45 min).
- Portfolio review — the design team will review your best work and thinking.
- Behavioral interview — a conversation with our People team about how you work.
- Take-home design task — ~60 minutes, scoped for this role, AI tools encouraged.
- Hiring team interview — with a design team member and the Head of UX.
- Skip-level conversation — with executive leadership.
- Reference checks.
About Miaplaza
- Miaplaza is a growing, self-funded EdTech company.
- We build homeschool platforms including Miacademy, MiaPrep, and our Online High School, serving over 150,000 students.